Training Workshops Offered

Marie-Andrée Delisle Tourism Consultants offers training workshops adapted to current issues in the evolving tourism industry. Here is a partial list of themes that can be presented to groups of professionals working in the tourism sector.

Marie-Andrée Delisle is also certified as a professional teacher by the Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council.

TRAINING SESSIONS FOR TOURISM PROFESSIONALS

Here are some of our most popular workshops and training sessions :

• Introduction to the tourism industry: tour operators, receptive agencies and travel agencies, local, regional, provincial, national DMOs; their roles, their work procedures, their tools, etc. - Understanding the traditional and non-traditional distribution channels

• Pricing and packaging : Creating, developing and commercializing well targeted packages
• 1-day: Basic elements
• 2-day: Day 1 + implementation exercise, partnerships, promotional tools and self-evaluation

 

• Creating tourism experiences that are unique and profitable

• Creating strategic partnerships and tourism networks for small businesses

• Public relations, press relations, press releases, press tours AND familiarization tours for the tour operators, travel agencies and receptive agencies

• Product development:
• 1-day: analysis, diagnosis, development potential
• 2-day: Day 1 + individual professional counseling and site inspection and analysis if possible

 

• Culture as a driving force  for tourism: links, integration, partnerships

• Integrating an Aboriginal experience to the tourism proposals, with First Nation tourism businesses

• Market and export readiness: basic criteria and preparation for national and international marketplaces

Depending on the type of workshop, different learning methods are employed: theoretical presentations, large group discussions, evaluations, audio-visual presentations, practical exercises, presentations by experts and panels. Set-up and follow-up of product development and marketing committees.

Lectures and short workshops especially for the small tourism businesses :

Marie Andree Delisle has added a series of subjects that are offered as lectures or short workshops, ideal for colloquiums, conventions and sectorial meetings. Feel free to obtain more information: